Astrophysics

Authors and titles for May 2016

[501] arXiv:1605.04165 [pdf, other]

Title: The LOFAR search for radio pulsars and fast transients in M33, M81 & M82

K. Mikhailov (1,2), J. van Leeuwen (2,1) ((1) U. Amsterdam, (2) ASTRON)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, A&A accepted; re-evaluated (improved) sensitivity limits

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A21 (2016)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[502] arXiv:1605.04168 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological constraints on Lorentz Invariance violation in gravity and dark matter

Mikhail M. Ivanov

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the 51st Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmology 2016

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[503] arXiv:1605.04176 [pdf, other]

Title: Non Axisymmetric Relativistic Wind Accretion with Velocity Gradients onto a Rotating Black Hole

A. Cruz-Osorio, F.D. Lora-Clavijo

Comments: 11 pages, 20 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 460, 3193-3201 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[504] arXiv:1605.04187 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigating the origin of hot gas lines in Herbig Ae/Be Stars

P. Wilson Cauley, Christopher M. Johns-Krull

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted to ApJ 5/12/16

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[505] arXiv:1605.04195 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the validity of the ray-tracing code GYOTO

Marion Grould, Thibaut Paumard, Guy Perrin

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 591, A116 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[506] arXiv:1605.04202 [pdf, other]

Title: Embedded star clusters as sources of high-energy cosmic rays: Modelling and constraints

Gilles Maurin, Alexandre Marcowith, Nukri Komin, Fabien Krayzel, Giovanni Lamanna

Comments: accepted for publication in Astronomy&Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 591, A71 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[507] arXiv:1605.04214 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes from FRI quasars

Matthew I. Kim, Damian J. Christian, David Garofalo, Jaclyn D'Avanzo

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS on 12-May-2016., 27 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 2016, 460, 3221-3231

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[508] arXiv:1605.04216 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermi LAT Gamma-ray Detections of Classical Novae V1369 Centauri 2013 and V5668 Sagittarii 2015

C.C. Cheung, P. Jean, S.N. Shore, L. Stawarz, R.H.D. Corbet, J. Knodlseder, S. Starrfield, D.L. Wood, R. Desiante, F. Longo, G. Pivato, K.S. Wood

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, ApJ accepted

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[509] arXiv:1605.04228 [pdf, other]

Title: Changing physical conditions in star-forming galaxies between redshifts 0 < z < 4: [OIII]/Hb evolution

F. Cullen, M. Cirasuolo, L. J. Kewley, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R. A. A. Bowler

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[510] arXiv:1605.04242 [pdf, other]

Title: Supplement: Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up

L. P. Singer, H.-Y. Chen, D. E. Holz, W. M. Farr, L. R. Price, V. Raymond, S. B. Cenko, N. Gehrels, J. Cannizzo, M. M. Kasliwal, S. Nissanke, M. Coughlin, B. Farr, Alex L. Urban, S. Vitale, J. Veitch, P. Graff, C. P. L. Berry, S. Mohapatra, I. Mandel

Comments: For associated data release, see this http URL

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[511] arXiv:1605.04256 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical Measurement of the Gamma-ray Source-count Distribution as a Function of Energy

Hannes-S. Zechlin, Alessandro Cuoco, Fiorenza Donato, Nicolao Fornengo, Marco Regis

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; v2: minor changes, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 826, Number 2, L31 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[512] arXiv:1605.04269 [pdf, other]

Title: A method for evaluating models that use galaxy rotation curves to derive the density profiles

Álefe O. F. de Almeida, Oliver F. Piattella, Davi C. Rodrigues

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. v2: diverse text improvements, no changes in the conclusions. Version accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 462, 2706 (2016)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[513] arXiv:1605.04274 [pdf, other]

Title: Prompt emission from GRB 150915A in the GeV energy range detected at ground by the New-Tupi detector: A review

C. R. A. Augusto, C. E. Navia, M. N. de Oliveira, A. A. Nepomuceno, V. Kopenkin, T. Sinzi

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[514] arXiv:1605.04291 [pdf, other]

Title: K2-110 b - a massive mini-Neptune exoplanet

H. P. Osborn, A. Santerne, S. C. C. Barros, N. C. Santos, X. Dumusque, L. Malavolta, D. J. Armstrong, S. Hojjatpanah, O. Demangeon, V. Adibekyan, J.M. Almenara, D. Barrado, D. Bayliss, I. Boisse, F. Bouchy, D. J. A. Brown, A.C. Cameron, D. Charbonneau, M. Deleuil, E. Delgado Mena, R.F. Díaz, G. Hébrard, J. Kirk, G. W. King, K. W. F. Lam, D. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, T. M. Louden, C. Lovis, M. Marmier, J. McCormac, E. Molinari, D. Pollacco, S. G. Sousa, S. Udry, S. R. Walker

Comments: Submitted to A&A, May 2016; Accepted April 2017

Journal-ref: A&A 604, A19 (2017)

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[515] arXiv:1605.04294 [pdf, other]

Title: The Thermonuclear Runaway and the Classical Nova Outburst

S. Starrfield (1), C. Iliadis (2), W. R. Hix (3 and 4) ((1) ASU, (2) UNC, (3) ORNL, (4) UTK)

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128:051001, 2016

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[516] arXiv:1605.04304 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of transient infrared emission from dust heated by stellar tidal disruption flares

Sjoert van Velzen, Alexander J. Mendez, Julian H. Krolik, Varoujan Gorjian

Comments: ApJ in press (accepted July 7, 2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[517] arXiv:1605.04307 [pdf, other]

Title: What does the Bullet Cluster tell us about self-interacting dark matter?

Andrew Robertson, Richard Massey, Vincent Eke

Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures, v2 matches accepted MNRAS version

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[518] arXiv:1605.04309 [pdf, other]

Title: The PCA Lens-Finder: application to CFHTLS

D. Paraficz, F. Courbin, A. Tramacere, R. Joseph, R.B. Metcalf, J.-P. Kneib, P. Dubath, D. Droz, F. Filleul, D. Ringeisen, C. Schäfer

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication on A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A75 (2016)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[519] arXiv:1605.04310 [pdf, other]

Title: Dependence of Small Planet Frequency on Stellar Metallicity Hidden by Their Prevalence

Wei Zhu (OSU, Dunlap Institute), Ji Wang (Caltech), Chelsea Huang (Dunlap Institute)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, ApJ accepted

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[520] arXiv:1605.04313 [pdf, other]

Title: ASASSN-16ae: A Powerful White-Light Flare on an Early-L Dwarf

Sarah J. Schmidt, Benjamin J. Shappee, Jonathan Gagné, K. Z. Stanek, José L. Prieto, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, C. S. Kochanek, Laura Chomiuk, Subo Dong, Mark Seibert, Jay Strader

Comments: 7 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures; accepted to ApJ Letters; updated to reflect referee response and proof corrections

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[521] arXiv:1605.04314 [pdf, other]

Title: A Tight Relation Between N/O Ratio and Galaxy Stellar Mass Can Explain the Evolution of Strong Emission Line Ratios with Redshift

Daniel Masters, Andreas Faisst, Peter Capak

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[522] arXiv:1605.04317 [pdf, other]

Title: fastRESOLVE: fast Bayesian imaging for aperture synthesis in radio astronomy

Maksim Greiner, Valentina Vacca, Henrik Junklewitz, Torsten A. Enßlin

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[523] arXiv:1605.04318 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Influences on the Solar Wind (Ph.D. Dissertation)

Lauren N. Woolsey

Comments: Ph.D. Dissertation accepted by Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 164 pages (double-spaced 12-pt font)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[524] arXiv:1605.04319 [pdf, other]

Title: A look to the inside of haloes: a characterisation of the halo shape as a function of overdensity in the Planck cosmology

Giulia Despali, Carlo Giocoli, Mario Bonamigo, Marceau Limousin, Giuseppe Tormen

Comments: accepted for publication by MNRAS (15 pag. and 14 fig.)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[525] arXiv:1605.04320 [pdf, other]

Title: On the improvement of cosmological neutrino mass bounds

Elena Giusarma, Martina Gerbino, Olga Mena, Sunny Vagnozzi, Shirley Ho, Katherine Freese

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94 (2016) 083522

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[526] arXiv:1605.04333 [pdf, other]

Title: The rotation period distributions of 4--10 Myr T Tauri stars in Orion OB1: New constraints on pre-main-sequence angular momentum evolution

Md. Tanveer Karim, Keivan G. Stassun, Cesar Briceno, A. Katherina Vivas, Stefanie Raetz, Cecilia Mateu, Juan Jose Downes, Nuria Calvet, Jesus Hernandez, Ralph Neuhauser, Markus Mugrauer, Hidenori Takahashi, Kengo Tachihara, Rolf Chini, Gustavo A. Cruz-Dias, Alicia Aarnio, David J. James, Moritz Hackstein

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. 16 pages, full appendices will be available in the electronic journal

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[527] arXiv:1605.04356 [pdf, other]

Title: A closer look at the cosmological implications of the $\Lambda$HDE model

Shuang Wang, Sixiang Wen, Lanjun Zhou, Miao Li

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon Not R Astron Soc (2017) 467 (1): 961-970

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[528] arXiv:1605.04357 [pdf, other]

Title: The Rise of the First Stars: Supersonic Streaming, Radiative Feedback, and 21-cm Cosmology

Rennan Barkana (1) ((1) Tel Aviv University)

Comments: 93 pages, 41 figures, invited review for Physics Reports. Comments welcome. Version with high-resolution figures available at: this http URL

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[529] arXiv:1605.04367 [pdf, other]

Title: Extension of ATLAST/LUVOIR's Capabilities to 5 Microns, or Beyond

Michael Werner, Mark Swain, Gautam Vasisht, Xu Wang, Steven Macenka, Avi Mandell, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Joel Green, Chris Stark

Comments: To be published in special issue of SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Systems, Summer 2016

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[530] arXiv:1605.04386 [pdf, other]

Title: The frequency and properties of young tidal dwarf galaxies in nearby gas-rich groups

K. Lee-Waddell, K. Spekkens, P. Chandra, N. Patra, J.-C. Cuillandre, J. Wang, M.P. Haynes, J. Cannon, S. Stierwalt, J. Sick, R. Giovanelli

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[531] arXiv:1605.04431 [pdf, other]

Title: The holiest grail

P. Daniel Meerburg

Comments: Based on a presentation given at the cosmology session of Rencontres de Moriond L (50) and arXiv:1603.02243. This version: updated refs

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[532] arXiv:1605.04437 [pdf, other]

Title: A reproducible method to determine the meteoroid mass index

Petr Pokorny, Peter G. Brown

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[533] arXiv:1605.04443 [pdf, other]

Title: Amplitude Variability in gamma Dor and delta Scuti stars observed by the Kepler Spacecraft

Joyce A. Guzik, Katie Kosak, Paul A. Bradley, Jason Jackiewicz

Comments: Proceedings of IAU Focus Meeting 17, Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology, XXIXth IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2015. Focus meeting proceedings edited by C.S. Jeffery, J.A. Guzik, and K. Pollard

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[534] arXiv:1605.04452 [pdf, other]

Title: Sound speed and oscillation frequencies for solar models evolved with Los Alamos ATOMIC opacities

Joyce A. Guzik, C.J. Fontes, P. Walczak, S.R. Wood, K. Mussack, E. Farag

Comments: Proceedings paper for IAU Focus Meeting 17, Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology, XXIXth IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2015. Focus meeting proceedings edited by C.S. Jeffery, J.A. Guzik, and K. Pollard

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[535] arXiv:1605.04455 [pdf, other]

Title: 2-D and 3-D Models of Convective Turbulence and Oscillations in Intermediate-Mass Main-Sequence Stars

Joyce A. Guzik, T.H. Morgan, N.J. Nelson, C. Lovekin, K. Kosak, I.N. Kitiashvili, N.N. Mansour, A. Kosovichev

Comments: Paper for Proceedings of IAU Focus Meeting 17, Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology, XXIXth IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2015. Focus meeting proceedings edited by C.S. Jeffery, J.A. Guzik, and K. Pollard

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[536] arXiv:1605.04458 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of an extremely weak magnetic field in the white dwarf LTT 16093 = WD2047+372

J. D. Landstreet, S. Bagnulo, A. Martin, G. Valyavin

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[537] arXiv:1605.04460 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ Absorbers with Gaussian Processes

Roman Garnett, Shirley Ho, Simeon Bird, Jeff Schneider

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[538] arXiv:1605.04461 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Energetic Particles and Their Radiative Yields in Clusters

Yoel Rephaeli, Sharon Sadeh

Comments: 6 pages; Rapid Communication, Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 101301 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[539] arXiv:1605.04488 [pdf, other]

Title: The Accretion Flow - Discrete Ejection Connection in GRS 1915+105

Brian Punsly, Jerome Rodriguez, Sergei A. Trushkin

Comments: To appear in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[540] arXiv:1605.04527 [pdf, other]

Title: Existence and Stability the Lagrangian point $L_4$ for the Earth-Sun system under a relativistic framework

Oscar M. Perdomo

Comments: This paper is a modification of the previous paper arXiv:1601.00924. The main difference between the paper is that the old one focuses on the stability near the critical value for mu and this new version focuses on providing a mathematical proof for the stability

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[541] arXiv:1605.04586 [pdf, other]

Title: Circumplanetary disk or circumplanetary envelope?

J. Szulágyi, F. Masset, E. Lega, A. Crida, A. Morbidelli, T. Guillot

Comments: Accepted for publication at MNRAS

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[542] arXiv:1605.04605 [pdf, other]

Title: A universal energy distribution function for repeating fast radio bursts?

Wenbin Lu, Pawan Kumar

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures; submitted to MNRAS Letters; comments welcome

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[543] arXiv:1605.04607 [pdf, other]

Title: Nature and statistical properties of quasar associated absorption systems in the XQ-100 Legacy Survey

Serena Perrotta, Valentina D'Odorico, J. Xavier Prochaska, Stefano Cristiani, Guido Cupani, Sara Ellison, Sebastian Lòpez, George D. Becker, Trystyn A. M. Berg, Lise Christensen, Kelly D. Denney, Frederick Hamann, Isabelle Pâris, Marianne Vestergaard, Gábor Worseck

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[544] arXiv:1605.04640 [pdf, other]

Title: The WISE Detection of an Infrared Echo in Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li

Ning Jiang, Liming Dou, Tinggui Wang, Chenwei Yang, Jianwei Lyu, Hongyan Zhou

Comments: published by ApJL

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[545] arXiv:1605.04646 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting constraints on small scale perturbations from big-bang nucleosynthesis

Keisuke Inomata, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yuichiro Tada

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, PRD accepted version (DOI: this http URL)

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 043527 (2016)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[546] arXiv:1605.04660 [pdf, other]

Title: Black hole central engine for ultra-long gamma-ray burst 111209A and its associated supernova 2011kl

He Gao, Wei-Hua Lei, Zhi-Qiang You, Wei Xie

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[547] arXiv:1605.04702 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a complex linearly polarized spectrum of Betelgeuse dominated by depolarization of the continuum

M. Aurière, A. López Ariste, P. Mathias, A. Lèbre, E. Josselin, M. Montargès, P. Petit, A. Chiavassa, F. Paletou, N. Fabas, R. Konstantinova-Antova, J.-F. Donati, J.H. Grunhut, G.A. Wade, F. Herpin, P. Kervella, G. Perrin, B. Tessore

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 591, A119 (2016)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[548] arXiv:1605.04706 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of mechanical stellar feedback in a sheet-like molecular cloud

C.J. Wareing, J.M. Pittard, S.A.E.G. Falle (Univ. of Leeds, UK)

Comments: 29 pages, 20 figures, MNRAS accepted. Additions after review include an extended analysis in a new Section 4, clarification of numerous minor points throughout and quantitative data figures in a new Appendix

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[549] arXiv:1605.04707 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the Cosmology of the Phantom Brane using Distance Measures

Ujjaini Alam, Satadru Bag, Varun Sahni

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures. Constraints on effective equation of state w_0 added, correlation between w_0 and H_0 noted. Accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95, 023524 (2017)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[550] arXiv:1605.04709 [pdf, other]

Title: Subhalo abundance matching in $f(R)$ gravity

Jian-Hua He (ICC, Durham), Baojiu Li (ICC, Durham), Carlton M. Baugh (ICC, Durham)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221101 (2016)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)